The Central Directorate of Public Security (DCSP) (french: Direction Centrale de la Sécurité Publique) is the uniformed patrol and response arm of the

French National Police The National Police (french: Police nationale), formerly known as the , is one of two national police forces of France, the other being the National Gendarmerie. The National Police is the country's main civil law enforcement agency, with prima ...

(''Police Nationale'') responsible for keeping the peace and maintaining public order in the cities and large towns of

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. Established on 23 April 1941, and its current structure operates under the Decree of 23 December 1993Aleksander Olech, French and Polish fight against terrorism, Poznan 2022, p. 90; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359135918_French_and_Polish_fight_against_terrorism. The DCSP consists of over 78,000 mainly uniformed police personnel known as '' Gardiens de la Paix'' ("Guardians of the Peace") deployed in 102

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al directorates with 462 Urban Offices. They provide general

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services, including crime prevention, patrol, and response to calls for assistance. It maintains a small plainclothes corps who investigates local crimes; these are organised into Criminal Brigades. The DCSP also deploys 9 '' Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale'' (GIPN), intervention units similar to the '' Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion'' (RAID) team (which is directly under orders of the '' Direction Générale de la Police Nationale''). There are also

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units, boat units, and an air wing.

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French ministry of the Interior
National Police (France) {{France-gov-stub

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